The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson, Nide 31812 |
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Sivu 14
... ev'ry star , May tell why Heav'n has made us as we are . But of this frame , the bearings and the ties , The strong connections , nice dependencies , Gradations just , has thy pervading soul Look'd through ? or can a part contain the ...
... ev'ry star , May tell why Heav'n has made us as we are . But of this frame , the bearings and the ties , The strong connections , nice dependencies , Gradations just , has thy pervading soul Look'd through ? or can a part contain the ...
Sivu 18
... ev'ry flow'r ; “ Annual for me the grape , the rose renew , " The juice nectareous , and the balmy dew ; " For me , the mine a thousand treasures brings ; For me , health gushes from a thousand springs ; 135 Seas " Seas roll to waft me ...
... ev'ry flow'r ; “ Annual for me the grape , the rose renew , " The juice nectareous , and the balmy dew ; " For me , the mine a thousand treasures brings ; For me , health gushes from a thousand springs ; 135 Seas " Seas roll to waft me ...
Sivu 21
... ev'ry pore ? Or quick effluvia darting through the brain , Die of a rose in aromatic pain : 200 If nature thunder'd in his op'ning ears , And stunn'd him with the music of the spheres , How would he wish that Heav'n had left him still ...
... ev'ry pore ? Or quick effluvia darting through the brain , Die of a rose in aromatic pain : 200 If nature thunder'd in his op'ning ears , And stunn'd him with the music of the spheres , How would he wish that Heav'n had left him still ...
Sivu 31
... ev'ry good we can divide , And reason bids us for our own provide ; Passions , though selfish , if their means be fair , List under reason , and deserve her care ; Those , that imparted , court a nobler aim , 95 Exalt their kind , and ...
... ev'ry good we can divide , And reason bids us for our own provide ; Passions , though selfish , if their means be fair , List under reason , and deserve her care ; Those , that imparted , court a nobler aim , 95 Exalt their kind , and ...
Sivu 37
... ev'ry man must be , Few in th ' extreme , but all in the degree ; The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise ; And ev❜n the best , by fits , what they despise . ' Tis but by parts we follow good or ill ; For , vice or virtue , self ...
... ev'ry man must be , Few in th ' extreme , but all in the degree ; The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise ; And ev❜n the best , by fits , what they despise . ' Tis but by parts we follow good or ill ; For , vice or virtue , self ...
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Balaam Bishop Bishop of Marseilles blessing blest bliss Cæsar charms Chartres court death divine Duke Dunciad e'er Earl ears ease EPISTLE Ev'n ev'ry eyes fame fate folly fool former editions give glory gold grace grave happiness hate heart Heav'n honest honour Horace int'rest king knave lady laugh learn'd learned less than angels live Lord Lord Bathurst Lord Bolingbroke Lord Chamberlain Lord Hervey lov'd mankind mighty mind moral muse nature nature's ne'er never numbers o'er parterre passion pleas'd pleasure poet poor Pope pow'r praise pride proud Queen reason rhyme rich rise rules Sappho satire SATIRE IV scarce Self-love sense slave soul Stephen Duck taste tell thee things thou thousand thro truth Twas verse vice virtue wealth whate'er Whig whole whore wife wise wretched write
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Sivu 13 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die...
Sivu 18 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Sivu 18 - Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
Sivu 16 - Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know : Or who could suffer Being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy Reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Sivu 17 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind Sees GOD in clouds, or hears Him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Sivu 244 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
Sivu 131 - Or in proud falls magnificently lost, But clear and artless, pouring through the plain Health to the sick, and solace to the swain. Whose causeway parts the vale with shady rows? Whose seats the weary traveller repose ? Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise ?
Sivu 24 - Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees : Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Sivu 164 - twas when he knew no better. Dare you refuse him? Curll invites to dine, He'll write a. Journal, or he'll turn divine.' Bless me ! a packet - ' 'Tis a stranger sues, A Virgin Tragedy, an Orphan Muse.' If I dislike it, 'Furies, death and rage!' If I approve, 'Commend it to the stage.
Sivu 67 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.